Water-motor.



No. 729,917. PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903.

F. A. BRADWAY.

WATER MOTOR. urmuuxon nun ma. 9, 1903.

no MODEL.

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fizz/anion" UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

PATENT OEEICE.

WATER-MOTOR.

SPEGIFIG-ATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,91'7, dated June 2, 1903. Application filed March 9, 1963. Serial No. 146,808. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern; M Be it known that I, FREDERICK A.- BRAD- WAY, a citizen of the United States of America, anda resident of Monson, inthe county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts,

have invented certaingnew and useful Im-' provements in WVater-Motoraof which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion.

This invention relates to improvements in water-motors are class comprising a casing having a bucket-wheel therein mounted on a motor-driving shaft and 1 having an inletchamber with which; one,,or more guides are,

connected for guiding the water onto the bucket-wheel.

The objects of the invention are to simplify the construction of the motor, to render the same available for the use of one or more streams of water against'the bucket-wheel for the greater or less power, as required, with a corresponding expenditure of water, and to insure means for the most effective direction of the water in relation to the bucket-wheel. The invention consists in the constructions and arrangements of parts, all substantially as hereinafter described, and set forth in the.

claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyin tom. Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional View on line 7 7, Fig. 6;. and Fig. Sis aside elevation of the motor.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

Referring more ,partioularlyto Sheet 1 of the drawings, A represents the casing of the motor, formed sectionally with lugs through which the parts are bolted together, as indicated at a,the same having a chamber Btherein for accommodation of the bucket-wheel O,

which is shown as mounted on the shaft D, having bearings in and through the opposite sides of the casing and provided with the pullej or driving wheel E, and the bucketwheel is shown as formed duplex-that is,with two sets of edgewise-open buckets 1) arranged side by side and separated by the central partition e. The casing has at its top and toward the front the opening f, above which is located and 'adjustably secured the chest or box F, which is provided with a pipe-section or waterway g and preferably with two of such pipe-sections, which protrude downwardly through and below the said opening f, and receiving the water-guides G, vertically adjustable thereon. H represents the water inlet and supplypassage leading into the chest F, and J represents the outlet or waste passage of the motor at its bottom. The water-guides are shown as in the form of tubes telescopically fitting and adjustable axially on the pipe-extensions g, being secured to another vertical adjustment by the set-screws 'i, the faces thereof toward the bucket-wheel conforming to the circumferences thereof, such guides being curved somewhat, as shown in Fig. 4. In order that the water-guides,

which are vertically adjustable on the pipesections g, of and downwardly extended from the chest F, may have their locations in exactly the proper and most effective proximity .to the wheel, the chest is rendered horizontally adjustable forward and back by having in the fitting-lugs j thereof the elongated slots 7' through which the confining headed screws or bolts j are passed, the latter having a screw engagement into the top wall of the motor-casing. Packing 7c is shown as interposed between the bottom of the chest and the top of the casing. The possibility of acquiring all adjustments to bring the guides to the proper proximity to the buckets of-the wheel and to have them at such height as to have a direction of the water for the best driving action against the wheel isacquired by the means above set forth, and in order that any back pressure of the water may not force the guides g outwardly unduly away from the edge of the wheel an abutment is provided transversely against each water-guide, the same, as shown in Fig. 4, consisting in a screw 0, adjustably engaging in a horizontal line.

through the front wall of the casing. of the passages through the portions g downwardly leading from the chest F may be closed Each tooth-ended lever m carried on a rock-shaft n, extended through the bearings and packings horizontally to the exterior of the chest and having a handle 01 for imparting a rocking movement to the rock-shaft. One valve may be left open and the other closed, both may be open or both closed, for the manifest effects resulting from such conditions. The casing is shown as having in its front an opening 19 and laterally-extended flanges q, such opening permitting the insertion to place an adjustable connection of the waterguides, and for such opening is the front closing-plate 1', secured by screws or bolts 8, which engage into the aforementioned flanges q. I11 one or both sides of the casing opposite the lines of proximity of the guides g and edge portions of the buckets are glassclosed openings t, the transparent closing sections 25 being held in place by any suitable fastening means, such transparent sections of the side walls permitting to be seen from the outside whether or not the water-guides are maintained in their proper and effective relations to the bucket-wheel.

In Sheet 2 of the drawings an adaptation of the motor is illustrated for the employment of one or pairs of the water-guides for bringing approximately vertical and horizontal streams against the bucket-wheel O, the general organization of the motor being substantially as described in connection with the drawings of Sheet 1, but embodying an additional chest F and made vertically adjustable at the lower front portion of the motor in proximity to the motor-front opening f the vertical adjustment of the chest being, by the lug con structionj and confining-screws, substantially as described for the adjustment of the top chest F. The chest F has the pipe extension 9 or extensions receiving telescopically and adjustably the horizontallyextending water-guides G having their locations in proximity to and under the bucketwheel. The conduit or conduits M lead from the upper chest above the valve or valves therein down into the lower chest, and, as shown, this conduit comprises a screw-coupling section it, connecting into the intermediate coupling (in which is the valve v) and into the top of the lower chest, so that by turning this section when desired to slightly raise or lower the lower chest such section adjustably conforms to the changed position of the chest. By having individual valves m* for each downwardly-leading waterway g and having individual valves 4; in the conduits hi it is possible where upper and lower pairs of water-guides are employed to drive the shaft of the motor through the bucket-wheel with a single stream or two, three, or four streams, distributed at the will of the user of the apparatus.

This motor is intended generally to be connected with some water-supply pipe and is susceptible of the variable manners of use 'in accordance with the pressure conditions available and the work to be imposed upon the motor.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a water-motor, in combination, a casing having a water-wheel j ournaled therein and having an opening at its top, a chest mounted at the top and adjustable tran sversely of the casing, having a water-inlet and a pipe-section depending through the top opening'of the casing, and having a curved water-extension guide, directed toward the wheel and vertically adjustable on said depending pipe-section.

2. In a water-motor the combination with a water-wheel having two series of buckets in diiferent parallel planes and a casing in which said wheel is journaled having an opening in its top, of a water-chest at the top of the casing transversely adjustable having an inletopening and having depending water-conduits extending through said opening, and directed toward the respective'series of buckets, and valves individually provided to the respective depending conduits, and means for separately operating them. 4

3. In a water-motor the combination with a water-wheel having two series of buckets in different parallel planes and a casin g in which said wheel is j ournaled having an opening in its top, of a water-chest at the top of the casing transversely adjustable, having an inletopening, and having depending water-guides extending through said opening, and directed toward the respective series of buckets, valves sliding on the base of the water-chest adjacent the upper orifices of the depending conduits.

having toothed tops, rock-shafts journaled through the walls of the chest and provided respectively with the tooth-ended levers engaging in said valve-teeth, and means for imparting rocking movements to said shaft.

4:. In a water-motor, in combination, a casing having a water-wheel journaled therein, and having an opening at its top, a chest mounted at the top of the casing transversely adjustable thereon, having a water-inlet and a pipe section depending through the top opening of the casing, a water-guide G having a tubular upper portion telescopically adjustable on said pipe-section, and having its lower portion in the form of a channel curved and with the channel opening toward the wheel, and the confining-screw 'i for holding said guide in its adjusted position.

5. In a water-motor, in combination, a casing having a water-wheel journaled therein, and having an opening at its top, a chest mounted at the top of the casin g transversely adjustable thereon, having a water-inlet and a pipe-section depending through the top opening of the casing, a water-guide Ghaving a tubular upper portion telescopically adj ustable on said pipe-section, and means for holding it in its adjusted position, and an adjustable abutment 0 for reinforcing the guide in its position adjacent the wheel.

6. In a water-motor,in combination, a water-' wheel and an inclosing casing therefor having at its top and also at its front, openings f and f chests F and F mounted and respectively horizontally and vertically adjustable on the top and front of the casing, and having the inwardly extending pipe -seetions g and g with eontinuations directed toward the front and bottom edges of the wheel, a water-inlet to the upper chest, and a conduit leading from the upper chest to the lower chest.

7. In a water-n1otor,in combination,a Waterwheel and an inclosing casing therefor having at its top and also at its front, openings f and f chests F and F mounted and respectively horizontally and vertically adjustable on the top and front of the casing, and having the inwardly-extending pipe-sections g and g with telescopic tubular continuations directed and curved toward the front and bottom edges of the wheel and adjustable along said pipe-sections g and g a water-inlet to the upper chest, and a conduit leading from the upper chest to the lower chest.

8. In awater-motor,in combination,a waterwheel and a casing inclosing same, having at itstop and also at its front, openings f and f the chests F and F mounted and respectively horizontally and vertically adjustable on the top and front of the casing and having the downwardly and horizontally inwardly ex- FREDERICK A. BRADWAY;

Vitnesses A. V. LEAHY, WM. S. BELLows, 

